LOVE Island’s Ellie Jackson revealed a secret family connection to a Gavin and Stacy star.

In tonight’s Unseen Bits the girls hung around in the villa garden and did impressions of Nessa, played by Ruth Jones, from the hit sitcom.

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To their astonishment, Uma Jammeh had no idea what the programme was, leading them to churn out even more of Nessa’s catchphrases including “what’s occurring?”.

Welsh lass Ellie Jackson then revealed she has a link to the famous actress.

She said: “I’ve got family connections to Nessa.”

The other girls exclaimed: “No way!”

Matilda asked: “Can you set us up with a meet and greet?”

Jessy added: “Roast dinner with Ruth Jones on a Sunday.”

Casa Amor girl Ellie was dumped from the villa on Movie Night along with partner Trey Norman.

She and the rest of the girls will no doubt be looking forward to the next Gavin and Stacey Christmas special which is currently in the works.

Writer and star James Corden, 45, announced earlier this year that it would return for its last ever episode.

The script is being kept under lock and key, though James admitted the first draft was complete.

Speaking on Capital Breakfast, he said: “It’s written right but now we’re doing rewrites. So we have to, we have to remove some time, we have to change some bits around.

“So we’ve been doing that, it’s quite tough because Ruth’s in Sister Act over in the West End at the minute, and I’m doing The Constituent at the Old Vic.

“So we’ve been doing quite a bit of writing in dressing rooms and things like that. And then both looking at each other being quite tired from the plays but we’ll be back at it tomorrow. Back at it Friday. I hope by Friday…it will be done and finished this Friday.”

Even BBC bosses haven’t been allowed to see the highly-confidential script.

The head of BBC comedy Jon Petrie said: “They are really keeping it under wraps and don’t want people to see it outside of their very, very tight circle until they’re 100% certain of it.”

He continued to tell the Daily Mail: “I think it will be hard when they are filming it because it’s such a huge show and everyone will want to watch, everyone in all the locations where it’s shot, it will be obvious what’s being shot.”

Fans have been left on a cliffhanger since 2019 when Ruth’s character Nessa proposed to Smithy after years of will they/won’t they.

And it seems they’ll finally know what the answer is as James said: “We’re going to wrap up a lot of loose ends.”

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Gavin and Stacey best moments

Gavin and Stacey’s Best Moments

With the news that the show is set to make an exciting return to screens, let’s take a look at some of the comedy programme’s biggest and best moments…

• Smithy and Rudi’s American Boy rap – No one will ever forget when James Corden and Sheridan Smith rapped perfectly word for word Kanye West and Estelle hit American Boy as they walked across the car park on the phone to Gavin.
• Pam’s Vegetarian faux pas – Despite loving a cheeseburger, Pam found herself caught up in a web of unexpected lies when she claimed to be a Vegetarian. She is forced to keep up the secret throughout the entire show and uses hubby Mick to help her scoff meat. She is later rumbled when Stacey catches her in the act as she scoffs ham in the kitchen. Stacey says to her: “Is that ham, Pam!?… “I’ve seen you, Pam. A scotch egg here, a bit of bacon there, putting those regular sausages into the Linda McCartney box”.
• THAT fishing trip – It remains one of the biggest mysteries in Gavin and Stacey’s history as to just exactly what happened on the ill-fated fishing trip. Bryn appears to be hiding a secret as to an occurrence between him and his nephew Jason which has left relations fractures. Ness’ on-off boyfriend, Dave, is the only other person to know the whole truth. Bryn did appear to allude to him and Jason lying together naked to keep warm as he said to Dave: “We’re going to have this out, once and for all, man to man, you may know what happened, David, but you don’t know why it happened! It was freezing cold, it was! And when you are that cold…”
• Islands in the Stream – No one can ever forget the classic Karaoke performance of Islands in the Stream. Nessa and Bryn performed the track in front of all their nearest and dearest. It saw the whole pub burst into some line-dancing as they enjoyed a boozy night out.
• The Xmas special proposal – In 2019, fans were left overjoyed when the show made a comeback but it ended on the ultimate cliffhanger. Nessa asked Smithy if she would marry him as she finally laid bare her feelings for him. Fans were gutted as the show then cut straight to the credits as they never found out just how Smithy answered. Will it all be revealed in the brand-new episode?